[[Footnotes]]

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*A star was discovered by Tycho Brahe which appeared suddenly in the
heavens — attained, in a few days, a brilliancy surpassing that of Jupiter — then as suddenly disappeared, and has never
been seen since.

‡This flower is much noticed by Lewenhoeck and Tournefort. The
bee, feeding upon its blossom, becomes intoxicated.

[The following footnotes appear at the bottom of page 101:]

*Clytia — The Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, or, to employ a
better-known term, the turnsol — which continually turns towards the sun, covers itself, like Peru, the country from which it
comes, with dewy clouds which cool and refresh its flowers during the most violent heat of the day. — B. de St. Pierre.

†There is cultivated in the king’s garden at Paris, a
species of serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large and beautiful flower exhales a strong odour of the vanilla, during the time of
its expansion, which is very short. It does not blow till towards the month of July — you then perceive it gradually open its
petals — expand them — fade and die. — St. Pierre.

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*There is found, in the Rhone, a beautiful lily of the Valisnerian
kind. Its stem will stretch to the length of three or four feet — thus preserving its head above water in the swellings of the
river.

‡It is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first seen
floating in one of these down the river Ganges — and that he still loves the cradle of his childhood.

§And golden vials full of odors which are the prayers of the
saints. — Rev. St. John.

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*The Humanitarians held that God was to be understood as having a
really human form. — Vide Clarke’s Sermons, vol. 1, page 26, fol. edit.

The drift of Milton’s argument, leads him to employ language which would appear, at first sight, to verge upon
their doctrine; but it will be seen immediately, that he guards himself against the charge of having adopted one of the most ignorant
errors of the dark ages of the church. — Dr. Sumner’s Notes on Milton’s Christian Doctrine.

This opinion, in spite of many testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of
Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He lived in the beginning of the fourth century. His disciples were called
Anthropmorphites. — Vide Du Pin.

†“Oh! the wave” — Ula Degusi is the Turkish
appellation; but, on its own shores, it is called Bahar Loth, or Almotanah. There were undoubtedly more than two cities engluphed in the
“dead sea.” In the valley of Siddim were five — Adrah, Zeboin, Zoar, Sodom and Gomorrah. Stephen of Byzantium mentions
eight, and Strabo thirteeen, (engulphed) — but the last is out of all reason.

It is said, (Tacitus, Strabo, Josephus, Daniel of St. Saba, Nau, Maundrell, Troilo, D’Arvieux) that after an
excessive drought, the vestiges of columns, walls, &c. are seen above the surface. At any season, such remains may be
discovered by looking down into the transparent lake, and at such distances as would argue the existence of many settlements in the
space now usurped by the ‘Asphaltites.’

§I have often thought I could distinctly hear the sound of the
darkness as it stole over the horizon.

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*Fairies use flowers for their charactery. — Merry Wives of
Windsor. [William Shakespeare]

†In Scripture is this passage — “The sun shall not
harm thee by day, nor the moon by night.” It is perhaps not generally known that the moon, in Egypt, has the effect of producing
blindness to those who sleep with the face exposed to its rays, to which circumstance the passage evidently alludes.

†I met with this idea in an old English tale, which I am now
unable to obtain and quote from memory: — “The verie essence and, as it were, springe-heade, and origine of all musiche is
the verie pleasaunte sounde which the trees of the forest do make when they growe.”

The rhyme in this verse, as in one about sixty lines before, has an appearance of affectation. It is, however, imitated
from Sir W. Scott, or rather from Claud Halcro — in whose mouth I admired its effect:

O! were there an island,

Tho’ ever so wild

Where woman might smile, and

No man be beguil’d, &c.

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*With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and Hell, where
men suffer no punishment, but yet do not attain that tranquil and even happiness which they suppose to be characteristic of heavenly
enjoyment.

Un no rompido sueno —

Un dia puro — allegre — libre

Quiera —

Libre de amor — de zelo —

De odio — de esperanza — de rezelo. — Luis Ponce de Leon.

Sorrow is not excluded from “Al Aaraaf,” but it is that sorrow which the living love to cherish for the
dead, and which, in some minds, resembles the delirium of opium. The passionate excitement of Love and the buoyancy of spirit attendant
upon intoxication are its less holy pleasures — the price of which, to those souls who make choice of “Al Aaraaf” as
their residence after life, is final death and annihilation.